Four Letter Word – New Love Letters
(Edited by Joshua Knelman & Rosalind Porter)
I would do any-bloody
-thing to get you. That’s how much I love you.
I couldn’t wait till I possessed you, and once I did, I never could let you go. I savoured your every word, felt you grasp my heart and give it a sometimes-gentle, sometimes-painful squeeze. I was ecstatic when you were, a debris of emotions when you wanted me to be. You cajoled, caressed, excited, thrilled and scared me. It’s too much feeling for one person to bear, and yet I did. Because I loved you.
I loved every one of your lovers—the likes of Neil Gaiman, Leonard Cohen, Hari Kunzru, Margaret Atwood and Chimamandi Ngozi Adichie—without an ounce of jealousy. I tasted their souls in their explorations of love… Let anybody who calls you a mere bound book first deal with me. Let them dare to call you that in front of me. You aren’t just any book. You are a eulogy of love; of lost hopes, lived dreams and deep longings in the middle of the night. You’re a collection of modern love letters written by contemporaries. You revived the art of saying those three words in more ways than one.
You are special, one of the most beautiful things in my life. And for that, I only love you more.
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